Pennsylvania (album)

Pennsylvania is Pere Ubu's eleventh studio album. The album marks Tom Herman's return to Pere Ubu's studio work after a twenty-year absence.

Director's Cut

In 2005, to celebrate Pere Ubu's 30th Anniversary, a "Director's Cut" was released which featured new mastering, alternate mixes, and two bonus tracks. David Thomas explains: "The point of doing a Director's Cut is to benefit from that older and wiser thing. I reviewed all alternate mixes from the session, sometimes discovering that an earlier mix turned out to be superior to the chosen mix. As well, 10 years later, we have access to improved mastering technology. Consequently, there is a greater clarity and cohesion to the Director's Cut. We are not going to make both versions available. The Director's Cut is the way it's supposed to be. Period."

The Associated Press reached that conclusion after it did an extensive analysis of 2018 voting patterns in North Carolina and Pennsylvania... They did their job well in both cases, creating a 10-3 Republican majority in this state's congressional delegation and a 13-5 Republican dominance in Pennsylvania's....

However, they learned again that clever partisan gerrymandering gives Republicans a clear advantage in legislative and congressional elections. Until this year, the situation was similar in Pennsylvania. Republicans held a 13-5 edge in that state’s congressional delegation prior to redistricting ordered by the state’s supreme court....

For most of the RepublicanParty’s history, the notion that the GOP would become the party of rural whites was unimaginable ... In this month’s midterm elections, rural whites sent new Republicans to Congress from Pennsylvania’s southwestern coalmining region and the farming regions of southern and northeastern Minnesota....